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How produce sunshine effect in virtual cockpit?

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One of the neat effects while flying is the sun shining into the cockpit while the aircraft is turning.  How is that effect produced?  Can this effect be produced in FSX? 

Thanks!

Airbus

 

Al Kaupa

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Yes, by using Steve's fixer.

Cheers.

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Tony K.
 

"Steve's fixer" and don't forget the clouds shadows too.

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Hello Kaupa,

If you are describing the sunlight and hard shadow effect in the cockpit and externally on aircraft surfaces, then Steves DX10 fixer is your answer. Running the sim in DX10 mode without the Fixer will produce extremely jagged sunlight/shadow effect if cockpit shadows are enabled with (Aircraft Casts Shadows on Itself) in Settings Display > Aircraft tab.  The sunlight and shadows look pretty good when this setting is enabled using the DX10 Fixer. However a reasonable external aircraft shadow/sunlight effect is displayed using DX9 Default but not in the cockpit under DX9, (only a transitioned shading effect).

If however you mean the sunlight glare as seen when looking through a camera lens then, it would be "Lens flare" that you need to enable in FSX > Settings Display >Graphics tab. You may also need to look at your Cameras.CFG  to set  ShowLensFlare=TRUE  under [CameraDefinitions.002] Virtual Cockpit

You will find your Cameras.CFG  located in C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX

Cheers Jethro  

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Hello:

Thanks for all your help!  I will take a closer look at Steve's fixer.

 

Airbus

 

Al Kaupa

Digital Storm purchased 8/17/2011; Win7x64: Asus P8P67 Deluxe; Intel i7 2600K@3,9 GHZ; nVidia GTX 560Ti; 8GB DDR3 1600 Corsair Dominator; Power Corsair HX 750W; Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD; 300GB WD VelociRaptor; 1TB Seagate.

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